Online enquiry form

Online enquiry form

Do you need assistance from the ABCC? You can use our online form to log your enquiry. We'll try to get back to you within one business day. Please provide as many details as you can - it will help us to assess and act on your enquiry.

Privacy

The ABCC may collect your personal information to assist with your query, action any complaint you make or for quality assurance.

You can remain anonymous if you wish by omitting your identifying details from the information submitted in this form, but this may limit the ABCC’s ability to assist you. This page is hosted on a secure cloud platform supplied by a third party supplier certified by the Australian Signals Directorate to store unclassified Commonwealth data.

For more information about how the ABCC might use your personal information, how to access or correct your personal information or how to make a complaint, please refer to our page about privacy and your personal information.

What does your enquiry relate to? *

An issue on a building site

An issue with wages or entitlements

The Building Code

A work health and safety issue

A media enquiry

A different enquiry

What does the issue on the building site relate to? *

Right of entry

Industrial action or strike pay

Freedom of association or adverse action

Picketing

Coercion

General issues on a domestic building site

Licensing or building permits

A different issue on a building site

In general, a building industry participant is a:

building employee

building employer

building contractor

person who enters into a contract with a building contractor to undertake building work

building association like a union or employer association

representative of a building association

Building work includes most commercial construction activities.

Building work does not include activities associated with the construction, repair or restoration of domestic housing, except if the project is part of a development that consists of at least five single-dwelling houses.

Does your enquiry relate to a building industry participant who engages in building work, as defined above? *

Yes

No

What is your enquiry about the Building Code? *

I need general information about the 2013 or 2016 Code

I need to know whether I need to be Code compliant

I need to develop or submit a workplace relations management plan (WRMP) for assessment

I need to submit an enterprise agreement for assessment

I need an update on the status of my enterprise agreement assessment

I need to notify the ABCC about a breach of the Code

I need to notify the ABCC about a disputed or delayed payment, or any other security of payment issue

I have a different question about the Building Code

If there is a work health and safety issue on a building site, you should contact the relevant authority immediately.

The state, territory and Commonwealth work health and safety regulators are:

If you still need assistance you can contact us through our online form.

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The ABCC can assist with building work as defined by the BCIIP Act and the Code, which includes most commercial construction activities.

Building work does not include activities associated with the construction, repair or restoration of domestic housing, except if the project is part of a development that consists of at least five single-dwelling houses.

The ABCC cannot assist with domestic issues including:

Contractual disputes between homeowners and builders

Fencing disputes

Domestic construction defects.

There are state, territory and local government organisations that may be able to help you.

The ABCC cannot assist with issues related to licensing or building permits.

There are state, territory and local government organisations that may be able to help you.

If you still need assistance you can contact us through our wages and entitlements complaint form.

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Wages and entitlements complaint form

Are you filling this form out on behalf of somebody else? *

Yes

No

Has this person authorised you to act on their behalf?

Yes

No

What is your name?

What is your contact phone number?

Employee details

Please provide the details of the employee who needs assistance with their wages or entitlements. If you are filling out this form on your own behalf, these are your details.

Title *

Mr

Ms

Other

First name *

Last name *

Postal address *

Contact phone number *

Email address

Date of birth

Day

Month

Year

Do you need an interpreter? *

Yes

No

What language? *

Is/was the employee’s employment subject to a working visa? *

Yes

No

what classification of visa? *

Employer details

You may find some of these details on the employer’s business letter, your payslips or PAYG summary.

Business name *

ABN/ACN

Full name of the business owner(s) and/or manager

Workplace contact phone number *

Workplace email address

Address where the employee works/worked

Employer’s postal address

Details of request

When did the employee start work with this employer? *

Day

Month

Year

Does the employee still work for this employer? *

Yes

No

What date did the employee finish work with this employer?

Day

Month

Year

What is/was the employee’s job title?

What are the details of your request? *

Confidentiality

In the course of managing your request, we may want to contact your employer by phone or in writing to request specific information about your employment and/or discuss your allegation. This will result in your employer being made aware that you have made a request for assistance about them.

If you do not give us permission to contact your employer, we:

will not contact you again after you make the report

may use the information you give us to plan our current and future education and enforcement activities

are authorised to give information to other Commonwealth, State or Territory bodies where it is likely to help with the administration or enforcement of a law.

Do you give us permission to contact the employer for the purpose detailed above? *

I do give permission for the ABCC to contact the employer

I do not give permission for the ABCC to contact the employer

Submission

By submitting this form, you declare that the details you have provided are correct to the best of your knowledge.

You acknowledge that the Australian Building and Construction Commission may disclose or authorise to disclose information likely to assist in the administration or enforcement of a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory. This includes referring your request, or aspects of your request, including any information obtained while investigating your request, to other relevant government agencies, including state/territory agencies, where issues fall within their area(s) of responsibility.

Privacy

The ABCC may collect your personal information to assist with your query, action any complaint you make or for quality assurance.

This page is hosted on a secure cloud platform supplied by a third party supplier certified by the Australian Signals Directorate to store unclassified Commonwealth data.

For more information about how the ABCC might use your personal information, how to access or correct your personal information or how to make a complaint, please refer to our privacy page.

The ABCC's jurisdiction only extends to building industry participants and building work, as defined in the BCIIP Act and Code.

The Fair Work Ombudsman may be able to assist with other enquiries related to wages or entitlements.

For prompt assistance, please include your tracking code, which was provided when you submitted your enterprise agreement for assessment. You can also call the ABCC hotline on 1800 003 338 for assistance.

Code covered entities must report any disputed or delayed progress payments to the ABC Commissioner and relevant funding entity (if any) as soon as practicable after the date on which the payment falls due.

If you still need assistance you can contact us through our online form.

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Online contact form

Please include as much detail as possible about your situation so we can assist you promptly. All fields are optional, but if you provide more information it will be easier for us to help you.

You can remain anonymous if you want to, but this will limit our ability to assist you.

Title

Mr

Ms

other

First name

Last name

How would you describe your role in the building industry?

Employer

Employee

Representative of a building association

Representative of a government department

Representative of a head contractor

Representative of a subcontractor

Other

State/Territory

ACT

NSW

NT

QLD

SA

TAS

VIC

WA

Phone

Email

Preferred method of contact

Phone

Email

Does your enquiry relate to the conduct of a person or business?

Yes

No

ABN

Name

Site name

Site address

Details of your enquiry

Privacy

The ABCC may collect your personal information to assist with your query, action any complaint you make or for quality assurance.

You can remain anonymous if you wish by omitting your identifying details from the information submitted in this form, but this may limit the ABCC’s ability to assist you. This page is hosted on a secure cloud platform supplied by a third party supplier certified by the Australian Signals Directorate to store unclassified Commonwealth data.

For more information about how the ABCC might use your personal information, how to access or correct your personal information or how to make a complaint, please refer to our page about privacy and your personal information.